AGRICULTURE: Flivver Farm Machinery

Last summer Chicago's mammoth International Harvester Co., No. i U. S.
farm implement manufacturer, belatedly entered the booming
small-implement market with a new, light tractor selling at $515, or
$225 cheaper than any previous International model. Fortnight ago it
caught up with the sensationally successful market in small combines
(which harvest and thresh crops in a single operation as they move
through fields) by introducing a 4-ft. model priced at $405cheapest
in the U. S. save for Allis-Chalmers' 40-in., $340 combine which opened
up the small-combine field five years ago.

Last week, hot on big International's heels followed two smaller
competitors....